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by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)

Forse perché d'altrui pietá mi vegnia
Language: Italian (Italiano) 
Forse perché d'altrui pietá mi vegnia
Perché d'altrui colpe piú non rida
Nel mie proprio valor, senz' altra guida,
Caduta é l'alma che fu giá si degnia. 

Né so qual militar sott' altra insignia,
Non che da vincer, da campar piú fida;
E che al tumulto dell' averse strida
Non pera, ove 'l poter tuo non sostegnia.

O carne, o sangue, o legno, o doglia strema,
Giusto per vo' si facci el mie peccato,
Di ch' i' pur naqqui, e tal fu 'l padre mio.

Tu sol se' buon:  la tuo pietá suprema
Soccorra al mie preditto iniquo stato;
Si presso a morte, e si lontan da Dio.

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Confirmed with Le Rime di Michelangelo Buonarroti, ed. by Cesare Guasti, Firenze: Felice le Monnier, 1863. Appears in Sonetti, page 239.


Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 289 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Walter Heinrich Robert-Tornow (1852 - 1895) , "Christus, der Retter aus der Sündennoth" ; composed by Walter Courvoisier.
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